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. >> until campaigns become as important as jobs and healthcare and clean air then it will always be a secondary issue and they will vote based on those larger issues. and the campaign finance issue has become such a sort of cynical response by the public that they're not going to vote on that. they're going to vote for the politician who is going to help them get their kid a better education or get their mother in a better situation for elder care facility. >> gavin: the frustration for me is you've got extraordinary people. i really believe this in politics who are trapped by an extraordinarily bad system you saw this with president obama who said i can't stand these super pacs but realized you cannot unilaterally disarm if you're in this game, and he would be crushed and rolled over. how do we reconcile that. good people trapped in a bad system. how do we ultimately manifest that. >> well, i think you need someone who breakaway and who will understand, and i believe this to be true, if they say i will not take super pac money that the people who hate the campaign finance system wi
. >> until campaigns become as important as jobs and healthcare and clean air then it will always be a secondary issue and they will vote based on those larger issues. and the campaign finance issue has become such a sort of cynical response by the public that they're not going to vote on that. they're going to vote for the politician who is going to help them get their kid a better education or get their mother in a better situation for elder care facility. >> gavin: the...
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when you think about the comic recovery, you are looking at healthcare jobs and growth in the healthcare industry fueling our comic growth. i think that has been great. you can think of it as like a stimulus program in the short-term. >> but it's ending? >> but it's ending and, you know, it is creating a lot of costs that have made it difficult for other parts of our economy to succeed. >> part of the article, we have usually seen healthcare employment, bedside care. my mom is a nurse. so i get it. you know pharmacist that is the under belly, stitches holding together the middle class. with the affordable care act going into place and the changing and funding models and the insurance companies, this stitching cog go away and the belly of the middle class could fall out. >> it's a little bit hard to know when you talk to people planning ahead, they don't know what's going to happen. if you look now at where the healthcare jobs are, they are really across the spectrum. so, you know, there are high-paid doctors and executives. if you think about people who work in a hospital. >> doctors? >>
when you think about the comic recovery, you are looking at healthcare jobs and growth in the healthcare industry fueling our comic growth. i think that has been great. you can think of it as like a stimulus program in the short-term. >> but it's ending? >> but it's ending and, you know, it is creating a lot of costs that have made it difficult for other parts of our economy to succeed. >> part of the article, we have usually seen healthcare employment, bedside care. my mom is...
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what is sane about making employers pay for their employee's healthcare? how is that pro capitalism? all of our allies have single payer. that's socialism we're afraid of? show me a capitalist ally who doesn't have it? when we're doing that, you'll see we'll no longer have a country where the leading cause of bankruptcy is inability to pay healthcare costs. we're going broke over this. if you really were afraid of -- if you're really afraid of the competition of public option or cheaper canadian drugs, then you ain't a capitalist, my friend. >> that's the crazy part. they argue they can't compete with the public option and at the same time they were arguing the public option was going to be crap and nobody wanted it. it is one or the other. really horrible and nobody's going to use it or if would be so unbelievably competitive that health companies can't compete with it. democrats didn't midge it properly and -- didn't message it properly and members of congress didn't have the right talking points to fight back against the tea party uprisings in august wh
what is sane about making employers pay for their employee's healthcare? how is that pro capitalism? all of our allies have single payer. that's socialism we're afraid of? show me a capitalist ally who doesn't have it? when we're doing that, you'll see we'll no longer have a country where the leading cause of bankruptcy is inability to pay healthcare costs. we're going broke over this. if you really were afraid of -- if you're really afraid of the competition of public option or cheaper...
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we see this in the gun debate and so many other debates in the abortion debate, healthcare. there are so many people that if you talk to the constituents this is what they want. clearly the polls say that. yet there is this infusion of money of lobbyists who are protecting the interests of business who have that interest-- >> but then i say the republicans and even harry reid if he let's this bill die in the senate, the next time there is a massacre, y'all own it. president obama is promising new gun control legislation, but if he doesn't it wouldn't be the first props promise he has brokenned. it was announced this week that those assigned at guantanamo bay is reassigned and no one is replacing him. was it just a complain ploy that he knew he could give up on easily if he had to. >> i know we'll get comments saying that you had obama apologizists on the show, but i think it's one of those instances, and we talked about it earlier on the show this week that he had this naive ideal that he could go in and close it it. and when he got in and saw all the difficulties of everyth
we see this in the gun debate and so many other debates in the abortion debate, healthcare. there are so many people that if you talk to the constituents this is what they want. clearly the polls say that. yet there is this infusion of money of lobbyists who are protecting the interests of business who have that interest-- >> but then i say the republicans and even harry reid if he let's this bill die in the senate, the next time there is a massacre, y'all own it. president obama is...
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you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. hershey's simple pleasures chocolate. 30% less fat, 100% delicious. [♪ theme music ♪] >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, it's the "stephanie miller show"! ♪ i'm walking on sunshine woe ho ♪ ♪ i'm walking on sunshine woe ho ♪ ♪ it's time to feel good hey all right now ♪ ♪ it's time to feel good ♪ >> stephanie: all right everybody get the tarps down. it is the "stephanie miller show." >> oh. >> stephanie: welcome to it. six minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. i'm back. momma is back and nobody help me. just projectile out of every end, food poisoning. everything good now. >> as far as we know. >> stephanie: jim is convinced i have nora virus. no, i just -- >> there are 220 cases of it on a
you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. hershey's simple pleasures chocolate. 30% less fat, 100% delicious. [♪ theme music ♪] >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, it's the "stephanie miller...
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you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. [ music ] >> this is "the bill press show." >> twenty-five minutes after the hour we will talk to angela kelly from the center of american progress about immigration reform, and it looks like michael tomasky is in the studio with us as a friends of bill. it looks like immigration reform is going to nose ahead of gun control here as the issue that the senate is most likely to deal with first. >> yeah. >> you have written a piece today form daily beast in response to david mammot about gun control. he wrote in newsweek. >> he wrote in newsweek last week. he has become very right-wing in recent years. so he is against obama and all of his deeds. >> channelling karl marx. >> the old handy hoary thing that they do. he said that obama signed a law giving armed
you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. [ music ] >> this is "the bill press show." >> twenty-five minutes after the hour we will talk to angela kelly from the center of american...
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healthcare reform is what you're an expert on. i'm a little rumbly in my tumbly still. >> she had soup and she's eating a pedialyte popsicle. >> you have to get solids at some point. >> stephanie: i'm on it. jacki schechner before we dive into right-wing world, hillary clinton super pac has been launched. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] >> i saw that yesterday. it's called ready for hillary. simple ready to work for hillary when she's ready to run. >> she insists it is grassroots. >> no, no, no. it is supposedly a woman who is an avid hillary supporter. she and seven other cofounders put it together. they've got 50,000 followers on twitter and they're not going to have a web presence like a web site or anything like that up for a couple of weeks but you know what? there is such a grassroots support for hillary. there are a lot of women and lot of men who are really excited about the prospect of her running. i will tell you that this is not just -- this is not just national. this is global because she held a global town hall yeste
healthcare reform is what you're an expert on. i'm a little rumbly in my tumbly still. >> she had soup and she's eating a pedialyte popsicle. >> you have to get solids at some point. >> stephanie: i'm on it. jacki schechner before we dive into right-wing world, hillary clinton super pac has been launched. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] >> i saw that yesterday. it's called ready for hillary. simple ready to work for hillary when she's ready to run. >>...
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you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. >> broadcasting across the nation on your radio and on current tv this is "the bill press show". >> president obama tells congress hey we need to get busy and pass that yougration bill fast or i will send you my plan and make you vote on that. the battle's begun. great do see you today. it is wednesday, january 30th this is the "full-court press" coming to you on your talk radio station and, of course on current tv. good to see you today. thank you for joining the conversation. here, our morning town hall to bring you up to date on the news of the day from our nation's capitol where the senate judiciary committee has a hearing starting at 10:00 o'clock this morning, on both sides, on the issue of gun violence horrendous assign in syria with some 60 young
you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. >> broadcasting across the nation on your radio and on current tv this is "the bill press show". >> president obama tells congress hey we...
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you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. ♪ >> out there history man as marvelled at the vast [ inaudible ] of the universe. without a single unified voice he has been left searching for answers. now -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. . >> -- has the power to change that for all of man kind to hear. >> really all of man kind. >> stephanie: uh-huh. representative joe courtney of the great state of connecticut joining us now. good morning, representative. >> good morning, stephanie. >> stephanie: what a powerful day, i know your district borders newtown, but to see your former colleague gabby giffords it's hard to describe the power of that isn't it? >> it is gabby was in the same class when we entered congress in '06. every wednesday afternoon we used to have a meeting as a group, and it is sti
you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. ♪ >> out there history man as marvelled at the vast [ inaudible ] of the universe. without a single unified voice he has been left searching for answers....
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so should have healthcare, assault weapons ban jobs bill, the list goes on and on. mr. john john on twitter says what's the point of the democrats helping the lowlife republicans gain hispanic votes? you can find us on twitter at bpshow. >> bill: so immigration reform sabrina has really taken over. has it pushed gun control off the table or just on the back burner? >> i don't think either. he's setting the tone that this needs to continue. what people are calling a gun show tour of sorts where he's going around and keeping the momentum going. president obama, too is going to reengage. he will continue to talk about it. >> bill: he did yesterday at the white house. >> he will continue to talk about it publicly in speeches and forums. he will bring it up, perhaps even in the state of the union and though not exclusively by referencing guns he even, during inauguration, brought up newtown and keeping children safe. there is a tone being set that keeps pressure that wasn't there before. and you have, of course, a lot of senators who have introduced various proposals to ban
so should have healthcare, assault weapons ban jobs bill, the list goes on and on. mr. john john on twitter says what's the point of the democrats helping the lowlife republicans gain hispanic votes? you can find us on twitter at bpshow. >> bill: so immigration reform sabrina has really taken over. has it pushed gun control off the table or just on the back burner? >> i don't think either. he's setting the tone that this needs to continue. what people are calling a gun show tour of...
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you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. [♪ theme music ♪] >> announcer: broadcasting across the nation, on your radio, and on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: president obama with a 60% approval rating now. highest of his entire four years and one month as president. what do you think? he is doing something right. american people finally realizing it. hello, hello, everybody, great to see you today and welcome to the "full court press" here on current tv. on your local progressive talk radio station coming to you live all across this great land of ours, and bringing you up to date on the news of the day whether it is happening here in our nation's capitol, around the globe or around this country. we'll look for your comments on @bpshow. and don't forget the chat room. you
you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. [♪ theme music ♪] >> announcer: broadcasting across the nation, on your radio, and on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill:...